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Dr. Lee Babcock is a recognized digital finance thought leader and international consultant with robust private sector, development implementation and consulting experience. He is committed to public-private and private collaboration that drives locally sustainable initiatives in rural areas that generate a return on investment. He has conceptualized, managed, structured and/or researched strategic alliances for digital finance projects in Indonesia, Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Malawi and Zambia and has written and delivered numerous publications and delivered numerous presentations in Geneva, Brussels, Washington DC, South Africa, Indonesia, Rwanda and elsewhere about the potential for inserting digital finance into rural village economies that are driven by agriculture as a gateway to serving the household needs for education, health, water, utilities, food, transport and other expenditures.

With a PhD specialization in E-Business, and an MBA in International Finance and International Business he is passionate about the potential of mobile money to do for the base of the economic pyramid what commercial banking did for the Industrial Revolution.